India Using Cell Phones to Reduce Traffic Problems
August 30, 2007 6:12 PM | Services | Comments (0)
| Bangalore, India is leading the pack to help alleviate their traffic problems using cell phone technology. Traffic in Bangalore is horrible so the Bangalore Traffic Police, Mapunity (developer of geographic information systems and services) and Airtel (provider of telecommunications services) have come up with an urban traffic information system for Bangalore city known as Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS). With BTIS (lunched last June), real-time traffic information is generated from the cell phone tower logs of Airtel's city-wide network, and made available to commuters to see live congestion hotspots, find directions and plan their travel routes. The entire information system is available through SMS to Airtel customers using a shortcode and to others by dialing a ten-digit number. This live traffic information system is the first of its kind in India. It addresses the growing need of traffic administrators for centralized traffic monitoring and control infrastructure. |  |
BTIS also offers mobile phone users the ability to carpool by sending text messages to other BTIS users with the hope of finding someone to carpool with.
Visit http://www.btis.in for more information.
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